and ….. http://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/mi ... e-10230621 He refuses to serve anyone who spends less than £1 in his convenience store if they want to pay with banknotes. “I was fed up with people coming into the shop and buying an item for as little as 5p so they could get change for the bus or the parking machines,” says Jack. “We have had up to 100 people in a day doing this – so I have finally taken action. I am running a shop, not a bank.” Jack owns Jack’s News & Booze in Queensway, Halesowen town centre, which is close to Halesowen bus station and to several pay-and-display car parks. He bought the business two years ago and, at first, accepted payment in notes for small purchases until he decided enough was enough. Now, he has posted a notice in the glass door of the shop reading, in capital letters: “URGENT CUSTOMER NOTICE: MINIMUM SPEND OF £1.00 WHEN PAYING WITH NOTES! CHANGE WILL NOT BE GIVEN UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCE UNLESS SPENDING OVER £1.00.”

This isn't an issue of legal tender but the shop keeper getting fed up of being a cash changer. Presumably he's happy to refuse custom and potentially lose customers. If he accepts the sale he can't legally refuse to give change. That'd be theft, wouldn't it?